Development and primary validation of the School Health Assessment Tool for Primary Schools (SHAT-PS)

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Maryam Kazemitabar¹  Danilo Garcia³  JohnBosco C. Chukwuorji⁷  Ricardo Sanmartín^1,10  Franco Lucchese^1,11  Kaveh Khoshnood^1,12  Kevin M. Cloninger⁶ 

[1] Department of Psychology, University of Tehran;Promotion of Health and Innovation ,(PHI), International Network for Well-Being;Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University;Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health ,(CELAM), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg;Department of Psychology, Lund University;Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg;Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria;Department of Psychology, College of Sciences and the Health Professions, Cleveland State University;Promotion of Health and Innovation Lab ,(PHI), International Network for Well-Being;Department of Developmental Psychology and Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Alicante;Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome;School of Public Health, Yale University;Anthropedia Foundation;College for Public Health and Justice, Saint Louis University

关键词: School health;    Psychometrics;    Well-being;    Factor analysis;    COSMIN risk of bias checklist;    Tool development;    Reliability and validity;    Assessment and evaluation;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.12610

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundSchool health programs need to target all aspects of physical, psychological, and social well-being. Using a slightly modified version of the COSMIN Risk of Bias checklist, we developed and conducted the first validation of the School Health Assessment Tool for Primary Schools (SHAT-PS).MethodThe exploratory sequential mixed method was used in this study. In the first phase, scientific databases were systematically searched to find school health models and instruments and 65 interviews were conducted with school stakeholders. The Colaizzi’s method was used to code the qualitative data into themes. Then, a pool of items was created for each theme, rechecked by psychometric experts and then validated for content (i.e., relevance, clarity, and comprehensiveness) by psychometric experts and individuals of the target population (i.e., school personnel). In the second phase, classical test theory was utilized to analyze the validity and reliability of the resulting items from phase 1 among 400 individuals working at primary schools.Results .93). The test-retest reliability was satisfactory—the intraclass correlation coefficient pooled was .95 (99% CI [.91–.98]). Moreover, the standard error of measurement resulted in an SEM pooled equal to 4.4. No discrepancy was found between subgroups of gender and subgroups of staffs’ positions at schools.ConclusionThe SHAT-PS is a valid and reliable tool that may facilitate school staff, stakeholders and researchers to evaluate the presence of the factors that promote health at primary schools. Nevertheless, in the process of validation, many of the items related to staff’s health were eliminated due to poor factor loadings. Obviously, staff health is an important factor in the measurement of school health. Hence, we recommend that the validity and reliability of the SHAT-PS in other cultures should be done using the original 76-item version.

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